HAOS
was and Night and dark Erebus in the beginning and the wide Tartarus. Neither the Earth nor the air, nor heaven
existed.

And in the limitless bosom of the
Erebus, black-winged Night laid firstly a germless egg, out of which,
after a long course of time sprouted cherished Love (Eros), shining
with golden wings at his back, being like the whirlwinds of the wind.

And
he mated with the winged dark Chaos in wide Tartarus and he hatched
forth our generation and brought it first up to the light.

Before
Love mixed together everything, the generation of the Immortals did not exist.
By Love, mixing everything with each other, Heaven came to be, and Ocean and
also the Earth and the immortal generation of all the blissful Gods.